wristful noun3 •A quantity worn on or covering one wrist.His main customer is known as Rat, a lean, darting, reddish man with a sniff of what could be an Irish accent and a wristful of watches. — 1973 •The amount that can be released by a movement of the wristHe took a brisk wristful of whisky as she raised her glass, then looked at her with a curiously blank stare before breaking the silence. — 1985 •The amount that can be taken from a wrist.Mopsus, is there purpose in the pulse one gathers wristful by wristful? — 2014 formswristfuls · wristsful